A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. the volatile salt, oil, spirit, and fixed salt. To which are annexed, divers remarkable instances of the efficacy of these noble medicines in the following disorders: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove.

  • Dove, William Taube
Date:
M.DCC.LVII. [1757]
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Credit: A short account of several excellent medicines lately discovered in the argol or tartar; : together with its preparations; viz. the volatile salt, oil, spirit, and fixed salt. To which are annexed, divers remarkable instances of the efficacy of these noble medicines in the following disorders: the raw chrystals, in fits, convulsions, head-ach, &c. The volatile salt, in the consumption, scurvy, weakness of the nerves, venereal distemper, obstruction of the menses, weakness of the stomach, &c. The spirit, in the dropsy, obstructions, lowness of spirits, fainting, &c. The oil, in the gout, asthma, rheumatism, &c. The fixed salt, in the stone, gravel, &c... / By Wm. Taube, Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/86 (page 8)
    [8] Inventions, from bafe, ignorant, felfifh, and ungenerous People : But exitus aft a probat. The Tartar, which is generated in the In- fide of the Calks of Wine, every body knows, is fo hard and compadt, that it may be walked and clean-fed of the Dirt and Faxes, which flick to it, without diffolving or opening its Body y but if you add any Corrofives to it, it will be deflroyed; as it will by expofing it to a flrong Fire; for then its volatile Salt, Oil, and Spirit, evaporate or fly away, and the fixed Salt only remains; and from a common Di- ftillation nothing will be produced, but a weak Spirit and a faetid Oil. In preparing my Cryflals, out of Nine or Ten Pounds of common Tartar, I have found remaining about One Pound of dark brown Drofs. That which I moft commonly ufe, is good Tartar of Leghorn. My Cryflals are of an admirable Beauty and Luftre: They are commonly half an Inch long, fometimes longer, and fometimes they are lefs, and about Half a Quarter of an Inch thick, fometimes more, fometimes lefs, but exadtiy fquare; and now-and-then make a Body about the Thicknefs of two or three Fingers. If I let diem lie too long in the Air, or cxpofe them to any Warmth, they will grqw as $